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HOLIDAY of the DAY (for those looking for a reason to stay home today) This is the 64th anniversary of the changing of William “Wild Bill” Donavan’s wartime Office of Strategic Services (OSS) to the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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the End Game

The Persian Conundrum is a tertiary puzzle. We will end up with Iran minus a nuclear program; or Iran with a nuclear program; or Iran under new management. We are insisting on the first option, which is least likely and will only happen voluntarily in...

Published 12-27-2009 5:32 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, government, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, Turkey, Intelligence, CIA
Iranian/American Hold ‘Em

Last time, I talked about the gambit being run by the US (holding out international gasoline sanctions against Tehran’s continued unsupervised nuclear activity) and Iran’s response (kidnapping of three Americans and the occupation of a southern...

Published 12-24-2009 13:04 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, geopolitics, China, piracy, Iran, Turkey, military, Intelligence, CIA, Afganistan, Iraq
Iran Calls Our Bluff

I’ve discussed Iran’s nuclear weapons program in these pages before, but an incident occurred early Friday that has been under-reported. A small unit of special operators entered southern Iraq and occupied an oil well in an area that Iran...

Published 12-22-2009 4:33 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, government, geopolitics, China, Iran, Russia, military, Intelligence, CIA, Iraq
Progress in Iran

American and Iranian negotiators met face-to-face in Geneve on 1 October to begin a process that many on the Left consider what has been missing from the Iranian nuclear program since it was discovered. Two initiatives came out of the talks – allowing...

Published 10-03-2009 19:13 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, geopolitics, international relations, China, Iran, Russia, Chavez
Rapting the Raptor

Largely obscured by the ObamaCare food fight, SecDef Robert Gates has made the closing of the Lockheed-Martin F-22 Raptor line at 187 planes (out of the contracted run of 381) as one of his major objectives in the FY2010 defense budget [1] . Reasons given...

Published 07-26-2009 4:18 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, economics, government, China, Russia, military
the UN Leaps into Inaction Again

Pyongyang announced an underground nuclear test had occurred Monday at 0954 [local time, 0054 GMT] in northeast DPRK, estimating the blast’s yield at 10 to 20KT – comparable to the bombs that flattened Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Russia’s Defense Ministry...

Published 05-26-2009 6:13 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: Obama, geopolitics, China, history, DPRK, UN
the Middle East and Barack Hussein Obama

In a piece to be published in The New York Review of Books on June 11, Hussein Agha and Robert Malley parrot the conventional wisdom about the Bush administration’s “reckless” activity in the Middle East. By virtually every measure – name, race, origins...

Published 05-21-2009 13:08 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, Middle East, Israel, Palestinians, geopolitics, international relations, China, history, Iran, Russia, the hysterical Left
the Middle Kingdom

Two Senior Colonels in Mainland China’s (PRC’s) Air Force (PLAAF) wrote a Chinese reaction to their observations of Desert Storm [1] . It is a stunning revelation of Chinese shock at the overwhelming effectiveness of American military capacity. Baghdad...

Published 04-24-2009 8:03 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: geopolitics, China, military
Much Ado About Nothing

As predicted, at around 2230 hours [EDT] on Saturday, DPRK launched its Taepodong 2 ICBM that had been poised on a pad for two weeks. Despite Kim Jung-Il’s triumphant announcement of a satellite being placed in orbit, playing patriotic music, NORAD...

Published 04-07-2009 4:30 by Eagle Watch

Filed under: politics, Obama, international relations, China, North Korea

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